Picture-frame.



BATENTED JUNE 4, 1907.

E. CHRISTIAN. PICTURE FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 25, 1907.

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UNITED STATESjiAlIjENT orFIoE.

EDWARD CHRISTIAN, OF IVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

PICTURE-FRAME.

No. 855,935. I Patented June 4,1907.

Specification of Letters Patent.

A plication fil d February 25, 1907. Serial No. 359,247.

To all whom, it may concern: Be it known that I, EDWARD citizen of the United States,

1 3 which are adapted to be turned into planes at right angles to the glass. The housing secures the glass to the frame and the picture CHRISTIAN, a residing at lVaterbury, in the county of New Haven and g is inserted into the housing through the door State-of Connecticut, have invented a new 10 so that the picture is exposed through the and useful Improvement in Picture-Frames; glass.

When thus located the strips 13 are and I do hereby declare the following, when turned down against it which hold it close to the glass.

If desired, a number of pictures may be placed within the housing, and either one of them may be placed in front of the other so as to be exposed through the front of the frame. Thus provision is made for storing a number of pictures any one of picture frame constructed in accordance with which may, when desired, be placed for exmy invention. Fig. 2 a transverse sectional hibition. The strips 13 will clamp against view of the same. 1 the rearmost picture and hold them all close This invention relates to an improvement to the glass.

in picture frames, the object being to provide I claim a frame in which a picture may be readily 1. The herein described picture frame secured and which, if desired, may contain a comprising a frame proper, ahousing secured number of pictures any one of which may be to the back exposed through the Iront of the frame; and side, a door secured over said opening, means the invention consists in the construction for holding the door in a closed position, and hereinafter described and particularly relongitudinal strips hinged to the inner face cited in the claim. of said housing, substantially as described.

In carrying out my invention, the frame 2 2. The herein described picture frame is ormed from picture molding of usual coni comprising a frame proper, said frame formed struction having a rabbet 3 to extend over with a r'abbet, a glass located in said frame, the edge of the glass 4. Secured to the back a recess formed around said glass, a housing of the frame around the glass is ahousing 5. having a flange extending into said recess This housing is open at its inner face and and secured to the back of said frame, said preferably provided with a flange 6 which p taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1 a perspective view of the rear of a sets into a recess 7 formed for it in the back of the frame around the glass, the housing being secured by screws 8 or otherwise. This housing is rectangular and one end or side is 1 close said open end, means for holding the door in a closed position, and longitudinal strips hinged to the inner face of said housing and extending toward said glass, substantially as describec.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

closed by a wall 9. At the opposite end or side a door 10 is secured to the housing by hinges 11 so as to expose the interior of the housing, and this may be held in aclosed position by a turn-button 12 secured to the back of the frame. l/Vithin the housing and secured to the inner face of the rear wall thereof are two or more longitudinal strips EDWARD CHRISTIAN. l/Vitnesses:

EDWARD MoCrRA'rH, JOSEPH E. LAUBER.

when desired housing open at one end, a door adapted to thereof, the housing open at one 

